Salil Kayastha

I’m a Platform Engineer/DevOps practitioner with hands-on experience in Docker containerization, Kubernetes deployments, and CI/CD automation. I focus on automation, reliability, and secure cloud-native systems, while keeping development teams unblocked.

In my current role, I collaborate directly with 50+ engineers to resolve infrastructure, CI/CD, and deployment issues. I design and maintain pipelines using GitLab CI and GitHub Actions, and I deploy applications using GitOps with ArgoCD. I’ve built and operated Kubernetes workloads (500+ running pods) using Docker images and automated cluster management across environments.

I strengthen operations with centralized monitoring and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Datadog, SigNoz, and Zabbix. I implement proactive monitoring, alerting, analytics, and daily health checks, and I manage AWS infrastructure including EC2, security groups, and VPC networking via AWS CLI. I also secure systems with Cloudflare (DNS/firewall rules/IP blocking and OWASP security policies) plus SSL/TLS practices like Certbot.

I’ve expanded further into infrastructure as code using Terraform and centralized secrets management with HashiCorp Vault. I support application operations like WordPress containerization and performance tuning, run static analysis with SonarQube, scan images with Trivy, and manage secure access with OpenVPN. Earlier, I worked as a Ruby on Rails developer building APIs and front-end components, and I also have a data-analysis background from Cloudfactory.